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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2019
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
James A. Curran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sonja R. Postak, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Todd S. Mintz, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); C25D 11/02 (2006.01); C25D 11/26 (2006.01); H05K 5/04 (2006.01); C22C 14/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/1626 (2013.01); C25D 11/022 (2013.01); C25D 11/26 (2013.01); H05K 5/0086 (2013.01); C22C 14/00 (2013.01); H05K 5/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
This application relates to an enclosure for a portable electronic device. The enclosure includes a titanium substrate having a textured surface that includes randomly distributed peaks separated from each other by valleys, where tops of the peaks are separated from bottoms of the valleys by at least a minimum separation distance such that the textured surface is characterized as having an Sq (root mean square height) that is greater than 0.3 micrometers.